Quay 1.1, the Leopard dock extender, gets updated
Rainer Brockerhoff has announced an update to Quay, a system utility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quay extends the Dock’s functionality, allowing the user to sort Stack menus in several useful ways, and see extra information for each item. Quay 1.1 now also shows version numbers for application icons, process information for running applications, and generates menus for Smart Folders. The user can also generate custom icons on both sides of the Dock.
Pssst, Secrets has been updated
Secrets , the tweaking PrefPane, has been (finally!) updated to v1.0.0. Secrets allows you to change dozens of hidden settings in OSX as well as supported applications. it’s quite handy. 
Check out Secrets here.
Native OSX Blackberry support in the works?
Macgasm and Ars are reporting that RIM is posting internal job positions looking for Cocoa develoeprs. The obvious intent is to create a native OSX capable BB client, but part of me wonders what the chances would be of seeing a server app to sit on top of an xServe. Another way to jab at Microsoft while stealing a little bit of Apples thunder, perhaps?
Yet another ‘Mac in the business world’ article
If you can get away from Exchange, you’re golden…but even if you can’t, Entourage is acceptable (not my favorite program by far, but it is passable). … The Mac is competitively priced with any PC that is worth a damn The only real reason for not deploying Macs is prejudice against Apple for some perceived grievance - whether fresh (iPod overload) or old (K12 fiascos of the 90s). As mentioned in another article I wrote last year , there are several things that Apple could do to make the adoption by business customers easier, but even without these changes the Mac in the enterprise is just a smart choice.
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Microsoft withdraws Yahoo bid
Expect the Google/Yahoo merger any day now… NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Internet portal Yahoo Inc. In a statement, Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) CEO Steve Ballmer said “After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) do not make sense for us.” via CNN
Time Machine - in OS 8!
Check out this awesome story over on MacWorld about the OS that never was, Copland . Some of the things that didn’t make it in that revision but in the OSX that we all know and love now include the precursors to Time Machine and Spotlight. 
Adobe makes GoLive go dead
via DF Adobe has discontinued GoLive, primarily because it sucks, but also because they intend to make the web 50% Flash and 50% Air. … GoLive started life as CyberStudio, an early What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Web editor, the flagship product of German developers GoLive Systems. … In late 2005, Adobe acquired rival Macromedia and has since integrated many of Macromedia’s products into its own product line, including Dreamweaver, another visual Web site development application.
New 1Password Release Adds PhishTank Integration, Other Improvements
The most notable improvements include an enhancement to the existing Anti-Phishing feature of 1Password, automatic detection of changed online passwords, and improved browser support. … Added Fluid Site Specific Browser Support, Others: This release adds support for the popular site-specific browser Fluid, OmniWeb 5.7, the latest Camino nightly builds, as well as improved support for Firefox 3. … More Password Generation Options: Also new in this release is the ability for the Strong Password Generator to generate pronounceable passwords as well as MD5 digest password generation.
